28 January 2013

Daojai and Urairat say they didn’t know how to do anything before joining the programme. Watch as they learn new skills and face new challenges during their training course at five-star hotels in the heart of Bangkok.

21 January 2013

At a university dormitory in Bangkok, 21 young people from disadvantaged communities line up to pull the name of a top hotel out of a bag. Behind them, teams of hotel staff in uniforms wait to meet their new apprentices. For 20-year-old Daojai Saetor, a cabbage farmer from a Mon hill tribe village in Petchaburi province, it’s an exciting moment. She reaches in and pulls out a piece of paper saying ‘JW Marriot’ and her new life begins.